Capturing referers at LiveJournal

[pyesetz]

Unlike other blogging sites, LJ does not allow you to capture the "referer" (the page the user clicked on to get to your journal).  My journal is now getting about 8 hits a day, probably mostly from Google, but I have no idea what search-strings people are using because I can't see the referers.  Other bloggers, such as bitchphd and respect_otters, mention off-handedly that they read their logfiles and see interesting queries they can then comment on, but I can't do that because I'm on LJ.  Maybe I should move to a *proper* blogging site?

Behold!  I have written journal.php, which displays a reflection of my LJ but with referer-logging.  For example, here is the reflection for the post you're reading right now.  A hidden link from my Furtopia homepage to journal.php/calendar should cause my entire journal to be indexed under that URL.  Meanwhile I've set my LJ-info to "block spiders from indexing this journal" so all searchers must come in through the reflection.  Now I have to wait two weeks (for the changes to percolate through to Google's cache) and then everything should be just peachy!

Another advantage: Google recognizes LJ as a blogging site and displays only the journal name, not the matching text, for search-hits in journal pages.  Google does *not* recognize Furtopia as a blogging site, so matching text will be shown for hits on my journal.  Ta da!  The Internet shall obey my command.  I hope.

Comments

[zi-mugudarina.livejournal.com]

Having looked through my own websites logs and seen other people's "Google Search" referrals, I have my doubts as to how accurate logs for those things are. They frequently seem to display keywords not featured (or even related as far as I can tell) to the site and often have search queries that no normal human being (at least not one who knew how to use a search engine) would use.

Fake Edit: "Google" is not a recognized word by the Live Journal spell check?